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Miana vs Miangel

American parents have registered 1,005 Miangels since 1880, against 663 Mianas. Miangel is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Miana against Miangel, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Miana Miangel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 36 years in which either name was published, Miangel for 23 years and Miana for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Miana Miangel
Total US births 6631,005
Most in one year 3067
Babies in 2025 1416
Estimated living today 6601,000
Median age today 1714
Peak year 20072012
Best rank 4,808th girls2,654th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st6,838th
First recorded 19901996
Girls / boys 663 / 01,005 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mianas alive today are over 17; half the Miangels are over 14. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Miana and Miangel.